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45. Excite Co-Founder Ryan McIntyre

2014/12/15
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Ryan McIntyre, along with his fellow Stanford classmates (Graham Spencer), Joe Kraus), Mark Van Haren, Ben Lutch and Martin Reinfried) was one of the "Excite 6" who founded the Excite search engine in the early 1990s. Ryan recounts what it was like to found a college start-up before that was a "thing," and explains how the technology was developed with the help and guidance of VCs and other early investors. We delve into the "Coke vs. Pepsi" competition with Yahoo, the madness of the "dot-com" era, and analyze the dominance of Google in the search space today.

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